C182 vs paraglider in Austria

How the heck does one hit a paraglider on a bright sunny day?

Really nice she kept her cool and got down safely. Great job.
 
Is that yellow D ring on her lap the reserve deploy? Looked like she grabbed the bundle and chucked it manually into the wind. That's pretty quick thinking, I don't know how that setup is rigged, I always figured that deployment would be automatic once the handle is pulled. Def an action you want to practice on the ground.
 
hindsight2020 said:
Is that yellow D ring on her lap the reserve deploy? Looked like she grabbed the bundle and chucked it manually into the wind. That's pretty quick thinking, I don't know how that setup is rigged, I always figured that deployment would be automatic once the handle is pulled. Def an action you want to practice on the ground.
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On hang gliders ( and I assume paragliders ) the deployment is a manual throw of a bag that is bound with rubber bands. At the end of the tether, the bands break and the chute deploys. The purpose of that is to get the chute clear of the wing before it opens so it doesn't tangle. We used to practice throws in a school gym hanging from the ceiling. Guys would get us swinging to simulate a broken wing (hang glider). Then we would pull the handle, then throw the chute. That was usually tied in with a re-packing seminar.
 
Cripes. Thank God the plane wasn’t cruising 10 feet lower.

I think I would have to invest in a personal ADSB-Out transmitter and some new boxers after that.
 
She’s going to have nightmares for the rest of her life.
 
Arm3 said:
Cripes. Thank God the plane wasn’t cruising 10 feet lower.

I think I would have to invest in a personal ADSB-Out transmitter and some new boxers after that.
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My reciever doesn't differentiate between ADSB or Flarm, but it was nice that a least a few of them were showing up.
Not a great photo from my Iphone, plus it makes them look further away than they are.
The panel view is from another location but shows how they show up on my FLARM display.
Brian
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Hang 4 said:
We used to practice throws in a school gym hanging from the ceiling. Guys would get us swinging to simulate a broken wing (hang glider). Then we would pull the handle, then throw the chute. That was usually tied in with a re-packing seminar.
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Yup! Look. Grab. Pull. Look. Throw. Is what we were taught.

Look for the handle, grab the handle, pull the chute from the pouch on your harness, look for the best direction to throw the chute, then throw.

And if it doesn’t inflate, pull the chute in by the tether, look, and throw again.

And yes, practice throws while being spun and swung from the ceiling.
 
Hang 4 said:
On hang gliders ( and I assume paragliders ) the deployment is a manual throw of a bag that is bound with rubber bands. At the end of the tether, the bands break and the chute deploys. The purpose of that is to get the chute clear of the wing before it opens so it doesn't tangle. We used to practice throws in a school gym hanging from the ceiling. Guys would get us swinging to simulate a broken wing (hang glider). Then we would pull the handle, then throw the chute. That was usually tied in with a re-packing seminar.
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Those were the days! Fortunately I never had to make that toss.

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3393RP said:
How the heck does one hit a paraglider on a bright sunny day?
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When I first started doing air-to-air photography, I shot a lot of powered parachutes and paragliders. I can tell you that even when you know where they are, and they're bright colors, they are very hard to spot. Your mind is trained to look for motion and they're moving very slowly.
 
Wow. If that 172 tried to do exactly that on purpose a hundred times he’d probably miss 99
 
It was a 182. Her expletive literally translating to "lick my a**!" and when on the ground "I'm still alive, that's the main thing" seem to be well said.
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Apparently that exact thing happened in that exact place a couple years ago but the plane crashed and killed both occupants.
 
And now it seems Austrian police is charging the pilot with negligence.
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Anzeige gegen Pilot nach Crash mit Paragleiterin

Nach dem Paragleiterunfall im Pinzgau hat die Polizei am Montag Anzeige wegen fahrlässiger Körperverletzung gegen den Piloten des Kleinflugzeugs erstattet. Der 28-jährige Tiroler hatte mit seiner Maschine am Samstag den Gleitschirm einer 44-jährigen Oberösterreicherin im Luftraum über Piesendorf...
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I think this is a very slippery path to take, when we all know how well see and avoid works. They do have a couple traffic alerting systems over there, but not a unified system. Gliders use FLARM (and a few paragliders as well), but most paragliders/hang gliders use an app called safesky, which relies on an active internet connection while airborne (how reliable is that?). So as a pilot, you'd need two different traffic monitoring systems to have a decent chance of seeing what's around you.
 
AV8R_87 said:
And now it seems Austrian police is charging the pilot with negligence.
salzburg.orf.at

Anzeige gegen Pilot nach Crash mit Paragleiterin

Nach dem Paragleiterunfall im Pinzgau hat die Polizei am Montag Anzeige wegen fahrlässiger Körperverletzung gegen den Piloten des Kleinflugzeugs erstattet. Der 28-jährige Tiroler hatte mit seiner Maschine am Samstag den Gleitschirm einer 44-jährigen Oberösterreicherin im Luftraum über Piesendorf...
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I think this is a very slippery path to take, when we all know how well see and avoid works. They do have a couple traffic alerting systems over there, but not a unified system. Gliders use FLARM (and a few paragliders as well), but most paragliders/hang gliders use an app called safesky, which relies on an active internet connection while airborne (how reliable is that?). So as a pilot, you'd need two different traffic monitoring systems to have a decent chance of seeing what's around you.
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Ordinary negligence is generally not criminal in the United States (with some exceptions), but it's much more likely to be in other countries.
 
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